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No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear, and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. -Thomas Hobbes

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Between the arthouse and grindhouse, between vhs and bootleg dvds, these are some films you may have missed:

Dementia (1955) dir. John Parker
Avant-Noir silent film that never got treated right. Ranks right up there with Cat People, yet got a dubbed narration by Ed McMahon and cut by censors for it's theatrical stint ( Read more... )

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Pardon me if I sound like a monologue from Linklater's Slacker for a second, but hear me out. "Pokémon" is a sort of shorthand for Hell. Think about it: a world made of nothing but semi-intelligent beasts who all repeat their own names, wandering about aimlessly just to beat the snot out of each other. It's like they made a cartoon out of Beckett's ( Read more... )

The greatest mystery is not that we have been flung at random between the profusion of matter and of the stars, but that within this prison we can draw from ourselves images powerful enough to deny our nothingness.
-Andre Malraux

Nun Excommunicated After Saving a Mother's Life With Abortion ( Read more... )

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